Metallic railroad-tie.



' 0. RUGGABEA MEIALI'IC RAILROAD TIE. APPLICATION FILED IU'N 4. I9'I.

' Patented' Nov. 5,1918.-

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Appli-afzien ed Jene 1i, 19118. Seria?. No. te.

' To all whoml it may concern:

Be it known that I, CoNs'rArTrNn En@ GABER, e citizen oi the UnitedStates, and a resident of Savannah, in the eouniy `o* Chathanrand Staieof Georgia, lieve in- Vented certain new and 'useful improvements inMeiailie Railroad-Ties, of which the followingr is a speoioaiion.

My invention is an improvement in me tailiorailroad ties, and has i'ori's object n.to provide a tiefoi the character'specified, haring new andimproved means for rigidly connecting the rails to the tie.

in the drawings:

Figure l is a top pian View of proved tie, with one rail in piaee;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section;

`Fig. 3 is a section on the ,iine 3-8 oi Fig. 2, looking in thedirection of the arrows4 adjacent to the iine; p

Fim. fr is a perspective view of one of the the imseotions of J@he innerlock;

Fig, 5 is a similar View of one oi the seciions oi the outer lock.

in the present embodiment ofthe invention the iis l is composed ofnieial, pressed or otherwise made to shape, the body of the sieoonsisi-ing of a iop and integral ends and sides,l and the bottoni ofthe 'tie is open in order that the tie may seat on 'ehe road oed andthat there Wiil be no tendency to creep or move longitudinaily oi therail.,

Near each end ei' ehe tie is a transverse groove or countersinir thesaid groove heiiie looaeion of ehe rails 3 when the raiis are in piacesi si we of each groove iijiereware openi si and. 5, respeeiino2-iyj'ehe o ening i los; or" the groove the open side. p s

A looking device is provided -ior the inpreventing inward for preventingrfiiit Each of a seeiion end a eeen i. Each oi" 'fiiese seeiions hasoseriying `8, 'l-he iip oi seeiion engaging over hehase ange o `^herail, eihiie *die iip of ihe session 3' engages the upper fase o ehetie.

at die inner side inf a; si; ehe onfcer upward moveni ihese ineke eotwili be no'zioed, referring to Fig. 2, eher when the rail is in placethe upper surface ofthe base will be approximately iiush with the uppersurface of the tie. The section 6 of the lock has a lip 9 which engagesbe- Death the\top of the tie at the groove, and the section 'a' has arounded lip 10 which serves the same purpose at the opposite side of theopening al.

it will be noticed, referring to Fig. 2. that. the opening 4 is ofsufficient width to permit the passage oi the'lip 10, the openingextending slightly beneath the base flange of the rail at its outer endYwhen J(he rail is in place. This permits the sections 6 and T to heinserted and Jshe rail to 1oe subsequently moved to its requiredoperative position and then secured by the outer lock.

The outer lock consists of similar sections il. Each of these sectionshas in its outer .Wall a Jeransverse groove l2, of a depth and width toreceive at one side lshe top of the tie at the edge of the opening 4 andat the other side the top of the tie and the base ange of the rail.

The sect-ions have normally some space ybetween their adjacent faces andthey are adapted to be forced apart fo lock them b v means oi a Wedgeshaped key 14e.' This key.

' which has a square head, as shown, is split ai, its lower end and itwill be obvious that when it has been forced between the sections l thesplit ends will spring apart, thus lock- 'through the opening and whenorce'd apart b v elle ihey vviil be irxnly locked in place 'by eheopening. The raiis areihns always held ai gage.

'if desired, he improved tie may be filled with concrete or the iike,and in any event itis lled with the material of the road bed to anchorit in piace.

i claim:

A nietailie railroad tie having iransvers'e grooves on iis upper surfacefor the seating oi the rails, and of a width and depth to receive rhohase anges of the rails, said tie having openings at each side of thegroove or receiving locks to lock the rails to the sie, and a lock ineach opening, each of the iocks consisting of similar sections havingtransverse grooves for receiving the edges of memes i Vase flanges andthe edgee of the openand resilient to form a 10pk fon the same by g hesections at the outer sides of the rail Jthe springing apert of thesplit ends after pxed apart from each other when the key has beeninserted.

a edgee the openings are seated in the CON STANTINE RUGGABER. fave? anda wedge shaped or tapering kQy Witnesses:

gagging; between the sections to force them R. S. MCCREARY,

net, the key being split at its small end B. F. PICKETI, Jr.

